Re: further notes on using Pango

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:50:22 EDT

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     --- Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> wrote:
    > At 4:41 AM +0100 4/26/02, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
    > >We also need to use "native font names" when
    > available.
    >
    > Yes, that would able be nice...
    >
    >
    > >CJK fonts often have CJK names as well as Roman
    > names.
    > >Note that we want to show the Japanese names of
    > >Japanese fonts only when the locale is Japanese
    > *and*
    > >the font has a Japanese name.
    >
    > I would disagree. I would suggest that we show the
    > Japanese
    > name ALL THE TIME, if it exists. Why does it matter
    > what the locale
    > is, since Abi is a "multi-lingual WP"???

    Umm - nobody will be able to read it for a start!
    I like playing with Japanese myself but I can't read
    Kanji.

    Andrew Dunbar.

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